On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:18 AM, sabby<[email protected]> wrote: > I also have this problem with amarok hogging the sound system. I'm not > sure if it's related to having pulseaudio since I don't use it, my first > sound preference is plain alsa. Of course libpulse0 and others are > installed since many packages depend on it. One strange think is that > if I start amarok first then vlc after the sound is mixed together fine. > However, if I start vlc first then amarok, amarok takes over and I can't > hear vlc anymore.
Depends on what virtual device vlc uses. Given your description, your audio hardware is incapable of native multiopen, so only one playback stream can be processed at a time. If vlc uses alsa's oss emulation, then vlc will block all alsa apps from playing or recording sound. If vlc uses alsa's plughw or hw, the same applies. At least as of Karmic, Amarok (via Phonon) is configured to use alsa's default. I have not read the source code for Jaunty's Phonon source. -- amarok hogs sound hardware https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354896 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
